[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 28, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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     WELCOMING PARTICIPANTS OF THE ULSTER PROJECT TO ARLINGTON, TX

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                           HON. MARTIN FROST

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 28, 1994

  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge the Ulster 
Project, a most admirable program established to foster peace and 
understanding in a land where peace and understanding are so 
desperately needed.
  The Ulster Project brings teenagers from Northern Ireland to the 
United States for 1 month in order to promote harmony and mutual 
cooperation. The group is composed of teenagers of both the Catholic 
and Protestant faiths. Each Irish teenager is placed with a host 
American family in which a teenager with similar interests resides. The 
hope is that while here, the teenagers will observe the peaceful 
interaction of American teenagers of different faiths. They can then 
take those positive experiences back to Ireland when they return.
  Living in Arlington, TX, this summer are the following teenagers, 
listed with their hometowns: Michael Brendan Bell, Bangor; Seana Boyle, 
Bangor; Colin Braniff, Newtonards, Elaine Caughey, Newtonards; 
Elizabeth Carwford, Newtonards; Alastair Lindsey Demick, Newtonabbey; 
Andrew Kerr, Glengormley; George Kidd, Newtonabbey; Darragh Lewis, 
Carryduff; Janine Lyttle, Templepatrick; Robert McElhinney, 
Newtonabbey; Siobban Claire McElory, Holywood; Paul Milne, Ballygowan; 
Naomi Reid, Glengormley; Linsey Anne Robinson, Belfast; and Hilary 
Roberta Smyal, Glengormley. Mary Gallagher and Martin McKenna, both of 
Belfast, are the counselors accompanying the teenagers on this trip.
  Again, I commend this project as a sincere effort to bring about a 
peaceful solution to a violent problem that has lasted much too long. 
The progress that Ulster has made, and will continue to make, is an 
encouraging example of the positive changes people can make when they 
learn the importance of working with, rather than against, one another.

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